pic: Capping a Robot

[BoyWithCape195]

Originally Posted by alt.|_/.er|

Yes, but the picture may have been taken after, but the capping done prior.

But I am also a little confused. If the 45 seconds have already happened, and the balls have been droped what good would this do?

It wouldnt do anything, since they most likely already caught the balls. If you mean by picking them up from the ground, it doesnt make a big difference. The thing about that is, some teams cant pick them back up from the feild, only let them out.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by BoyWithCape195

It wouldnt do anything, since they most likely already caught the balls. If you mean by picking them up from the ground, it doesnt make a big difference. The thing about that is, some teams cant pick them back up from the feild, only let them out.

yeah.. both of the catching robots at the NJ regional just used some kind of agitator or something to get them out, and didnt actually use a roller system that would suck them back in.

[Crazy_Ed]

At the Orlando regional team 1083 (i think) had a omni-wheeled cilinder that could run over a ball and pick it up into a chute. It was amazingly simple but worked every time. Team Combat (don't know the num) did something similar by unfolding a large piece of material and waiting under the ball drop. They caught almost every ball every time but had trouble feeding them to the HP.

[BoyWithCape195]

Originally Posted by Crazy_Ed

At the Orlando regional team 1083 (i think) had a omni-wheeled cilinder that could run over a ball and pick it up into a chute. It was amazingly simple but worked every time. Team Combat (don't know the num) did something similar by unfolding a large piece of material and waiting under the ball drop. They caught almost every ball every time but had trouble feeding them to the HP.

The problem of feeding the balls to the human player was a big factor in the discouraging the use of this strategy to many teams. It was just very difficult to do and, most of the time, took the weight or time a team didnt have. I commend the teams that used that strategy, becasue it takes many hours to come out with an idea that gets the balls out everytime.